Hello Marco Cecconi (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Andreas Janssen wrote: > >> partition, change your fstab and reinstall your boot loader. The >> disadvantage is that if /boot is on the root partition, you can't >> have /boot read-only. > > Yeah, but Debian doesn't make /boot read-only by default, Debian doesn't make any partition read-only by default, but you only have to add three letters to your fstab (,ro) > and also, half of the stuff in there is actually links to stuff in > /var or /etc (can't remember which atm)... which pretty much defies > the purpose. :-) Not on my boot partition. All the files are on /boot. By default. > Also, don't expect your system to boot from /boot! It > actually boots from / and then mounts /boot... don't ask me why! :-) Yes, / is mounted first, however at that time the kernel is already loaded. You don't have to mount /boot at all, unless you want to install or remove a kernel. Not mounting /boot or mounting it ro still lowers the probability that your kernel is destroyed if you have some filesystem error on /. Although I must admit that on a system where most things are already on separate partitions the probability of / having filesystem errors might be very small. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]